TRUE URBAN SPIRIT

4 VIENNA: NETWORKING THE CITY
AREA
MANAGEMENT
& MONITORING
FOR EDUCATION
INFRASTRUCTURE
In coming years, reserving high-quality areas for educational
facilities will be a central priority for the City of Vienna. For this
reason, Vienna will on the one hand define frame conditions
for infrastructure development by means of a time-tried instrument
– the Infrastructure Commission – in newly created zones
with subsidised housing. Moreover, criteria for privately financed
housing construction are developed; clearcut priorities for land
use in already built-up zones are set; uniform quality standards
are laid down for the entire municipal territory (with regard to
e. g. vacant plots, emission loads, public transport connections);
and actual demand is constantly analysed and evaluated.
FLAGSHIP INITIATIVE
SPACE FOR EDUCATION
To further improve the coherence of housing and
infrastructure investments and in particular to reserve
high-quality plots in time, Vienna will conduct accurate
analyses of space demand for education infrastructure
for the entire city as well as for individual urban
quarters and will in addition extend its education monitoring
activities. On this basis, spatial priorities will
be defined and strategies for land mobilisation and
reserves will be drafted while expansion potentials of
existing locations will be explored.
Application of the education monitoring system (Administrative
Group for Urban Planning, Traffic & Transport,
Climate Protection, Energy and Public Participation and
Chief Administrative Office – Executive Group for Construction
and Technology, Infrastructure Section), which inter alia
prepares information regarding the following aspects:
I annual comparison of predicted small-scale changes in
population figures at the individual urban quarter level
for children aged 0-14 years with actual developments;
I comparison of foreseeable demand curves with agreed
development plans.
identification of spatial potentials of both already built
and newly developed zones and possibilities of activating
currently unused spaces.
evaluation of possibilities for the intensified linkage of
social infrastructure and other forms of use.
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